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"Have Goggles, Will Travel!”
Book Outline:
Journey Route Map of USA
Title Page
Dedication
Preface
Tell me. From the Beginning.
Getting the Idea
The Planning Stages ~ Selected journal entries.
Mom's Daily Telephone Log chronologically reports the people, planes, and places day by day. Interlaces with expanded chapters.
Expanded Chapters ~ Highs and lows, twists of fate and lessons learned:
Spray Pilots
Islands in the Prairie
Frozen Barnstormer
Twentynine Palms
Clark & His Arc
Southern California
The Kari-Keen Man, the Cab Lady, the Ex-con and the Incessant Talker
Time Trapped (poem)
Captain Dave
Backyard
Freight Dogs
Barnstormer’s Specs and Power Helmets
Jenny Ride (poem)
Just another Pilot
A Room in a House
Night Flight (poem)
You Can’t Get There From Here
Orlando Country Roller Race
The Things I Shouldn’t Tell You
More Ponderings From My Little Control Tower
A Grass Strip Forever
Scrapbook of Memories:
Airport Cafes
Hangars
Barnstormer’s Superstitions Legends and Practices.
People and Quotes ~ A listing by state of about 3,000 people interesting one line
aviation quotes they gave Martha to remember them by. (for a second book?)
Glossary ~ Pilot slang and a few technical aviation acronyms explained.
Antiquated Glossary ~ Early aviation terms no longer in use.
Hosts and Helpers
The Aviators List
The Aviators (photo, quote, plane and journey flight info for each of 199 pilots)
Pilot Logbook ~ Condensed reprint of the logbook entries, sequencing each of the 345 flights by: number, participating pilot, aircraft flown, date, time at takeoff and landing, miles flown, landings survived, airfields of origin and destination, endurance, and remarks.
Recounts from some of the Aviators
Map 24x36" follow-along fold out map of route of 345 flights through all 48 Continental states in the USA.
Index
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